Time for our monthly meeting of the Insecure Writer's Support Group! Hosted as ever by Alex J. Cavanaugh, the aim of the group is to offer a safe space where writers can share doubts and insecurities without fear of being judged. This month's co-hosts are J.S. Pailly, Rebecca Douglass, Pat Garcia, Louise-Fundy Blue and Natalie Aguirre.
This month's optional IWSG question is: What are your favorite writing processing (e.g. Word, Scrivener, yWriter, Dabble), writing apps, software, and tools? Why do you recommend them? And which one is your all time favorite that you cannot live without and use daily or at least whenever you write?
I'm very old school - just Word and a pen and paper for me. I can't imagine needing anything else. I don't write entire books in longhand, but it's invaluable for sketching outlines and hashing out ideas when I get stuck. The hard part is deciphering the scrawl afterwards!
What am I up to this month? The usual, keeping on keeping on with writing and querying. I feel like I've nearly reached "the end" of the first draft of my WIP for the longest time, but other things keep piling up. In these next couple of weeks, I need to nail it.
My book, The Becalmer, is half price for all of July in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale. You can grab it here if you haven't read it! Here's the blurb as a quick reminder:
11 comments:
Hi Nick - well done for keeping on, keeping on - the essential in life and good luck with the new WIP. Yes - scrabbling to unravel one's notes can be 'interesting'!! Cheers Hilary
Me too on Word and old using pen and paper. I can't even imagine my kiddos dealing with all my printed and handwritten paper when I die. :)
Hope you reach the end soon! I just use Word.
Word person here too!
The end will come--I'm talking about the draft that it. 😁
I'm old fashioned like you and just use Word. Good luck with your querying.
Hope you can dig out of that pile and reach the end.
I couldn't agree more -- Word, a pen, and a piece of paper are perpetual pieces of my writing process.
Nick, I'm like you--Word, and and pen/notebook. Also like you in that my writing is hard to decipher!
Loved The Becalmer, and you remind me that I never signed up for the sale. It's never too late!
So far, that seems to be the consensus (Word with occasional longhand). Whatever works, right?
It's Word for me too. Can't do longhand. And long hand? I'm a scribbler and have lost some good ideas because I can't read back my own writing.
Oh my gosh, Nick, I have trouble reading my own writing, too. Yet...I still use pen and paper to draw diagrams to "see" where my characters are at times. And yes, I use Microsoft, too. More power to you, Nick!
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